SQLite is now used as internal notes database. (Feature) Now CintaNotes used an industry-strength database in the backend! It now can boast reduced memory consumption on large notebooks and search that is even faster than before.

Full text search with extended query syntax (Feature) It's like CintaNotes now has a little Google inside.

Sorting notes by date, title, link and size. (Feature)

New parameters in the .settings file. (Enhancement) Finally you can specify the path to the notebook file to load.

DropBox synchronization without closing the program (Feature) Put cintanotes.db into your DropBox folder and it will be automatically synchronized across of all your PCs. And now you don't have to remember to close CintaNotes before leaving!

Ability to exclude tags from search (Feature) Exclude tags via Alt-clicking on them in the tag sidebar (tag OR mode is using Shift-click now)

The '-i' command line switch allows to run different instances of CintaNotes simultaneously. (Feature)

Added the "Notebook Parameters" dialog, which allows to setup the notebook file path, adjust synchronization settings, and move current notebook to another location. The dialog box is called up with the "File/Notebook..." menu item.

Added translations of the UI into Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian and Spanish languages.

Basic text formatting support in notes editorYou can now format text in notes editor. Bold, italics, underline, strikeout, monospace and highlighting are supported. Also you can make bulleted and numbered lists. Text formatting support is optional and can be turned off in the Options / Editor menu.

Notes list can display formatted text in note preview.

Import and export of text formatting to and from XML.

New "Option/Startup" submenu with two options which previously has been available only via manual editing of the .settings file: "Run Minimized" - makes CintaNotes run minimized to tray; "Allow Multiple Instances" - use this to run many copies of CN simultaneously.

Enhancements:

Refreshed program icons and logo, by a professional designer(The program icon doens't look ugly on Windows 7 taskbar anymore!)

Tab characters now don't get autoconverted to spaces.

Updated "About CintaNotes" dialog.

Display of a descriptive message when trying to load unknown new version of the notebook file.

Tag autocomplete now matches any word in multi word tagsWords within tags can be delimited by many common non-alphabetic characters, like this: "my-tag", "projects/cintanotes", "prio:high", "cn_rocks".

New option "Options/Editor/Auto-Indent" which controls whether a new line in editor gets automatically indented like the previous one.

Configuring how the note's timestamp is displayed in the notes list You can set whether creation of modification time should be displayed (or both), and also if the time of day needs to be displayed.

Searching by modification timeNew search mode has been added.

Enhancements:

Improved speed of XML import and export.

Display of note creation and modification time in the editor(You can turn this off using the "editor.displaydates" parameter in cintanotes.settings.)

Fixes:

Main window was not visible after single tray icon click if "Minimize to tray" was not set.

USB stick could not be safely removed after note import or export.

Importing .db could modify the source file if it was from an older CintaNotes version.

Note last modification date was not exported to XML and imported from itIn order to export to an XML file readable by CintaNotes 1.5.4 and earlier, you need to use the special "XML for CintaNotes 1.5.4" format.

Sort order by modification date was broken after importing from XML.

Note's modification time always changed if note had a styled link.

Text search could crash the appWhen maximum text preview lines was set to 1.

It was impossible to select an italic font in the Note Appearance dialog.

Like it was announced before, with this version the licensing model changes to "Freemium". Basic functionality (which covers all features of version 1.5.7) continues to be free, but the new commercial features require buying a Personal or Company license.

In this version:

Features:

[Commercial] Multiple notebooks support: CintaNotes now has the "File/Open" and "File/Save As..." commands, and also has the recently opened files list to easily switch between different DB files. The name of the currently opened DB file is displayed in the main window title (unless it is "cintanotes.db").

[Commercial] Tag sidebar can now display tag usage countsThis allows you to easily see which tags are underused and can be merged or removed. Tag count display can be turned off in Options/Tags menu.

Unified and consistent search behavior: Search behavior is now unified and consistent. "Exact search" mode has been removed. Instead there's an option to search inside words. Now you can always use the logical operators: space as AND and '|' as ORIf you need to search for an exact quote, put it in doublequotes, like this: "to be or not to be".

Support for mixed case tags.

"Cut" command for notes, and custom clipboard format to transfer notes from one notebook to another while keeping text formatting.

New "Help/License" dialog to manage product licensing: The dialog includes ability to automatically fill licensing data from clipboard and also via clipping.

Enhancements:

Tag sidebar can now be resized with the mouse.

New Options/Tags submenu to configure tagging options.

New option: "Options/Clipping/After Clipping/Assign currently active tags"When this option is on, newly clipped notes are automatically assigned tags which are currently selected on the Tag Sidebar.

Note editor: Alt+C now works as shortcut for "Cancel".

Ctrl+U shortcut for displaying untagged notes.

Last used export format is now remembered in settings.

Note export scope parameters in the export dialog.

Main menu reorganization. "Note Appearance" menu item moved to the Options menu.

The executable is now signed with a digital signature.

Proper metadata and version information in the executable.

Note export dialog now includes the "Export scope" groupbox.

Ctrl+Home/End in search box to focus note list and go to first/last note.